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The one adult in the building everyone pretends not to fear.
means The person with overall responsibility for running a school — academically, administratively, and for pretty much everything that goes wrong.
from A plain compound of 'head' (meaning chief or foremost, as in headmaster, head chef) plus 'teacher.' British English favors 'headteacher' or 'head,' gender-neutral by design, replacing the older split of 'headmaster' and 'headmistress' as schools moved toward a single unisex title.
- real job
- 90% budgets and bins, 10% assemblies
- etymology
- literally just teacher who won survival of fittest
- superpower
- silences 500 kids by clearing their throat
- US equivalent
- principal, same dread, different accent